A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 125

Cousin?!

Cordy flinched while she was still in John’s arms, and he clearly felt her move!

“Come here,” John then told Zoe.

Zoe did so tentatively with an unsteady gait. Though her cheeks were flushed from alcohol, she looked utterly afraid, like a child about to ask their parents for forgiveness.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt you making out,” she said with a wounded tone. “I just needed to pee.”

On the other hand, although Cordy had been resistant toward being intimate with John, she was left so utterly awkward she buried her head within John’s embrace, too ashamed to show her face. John certainly knew that Cordy was embarrassed, but he was not letting her off the hook either. He pressed, “And what do you call my grandfather?”

“John, you’re scaring me.” Zoe’s pupils were dilating–did he somehow lose every bit of intelligence from making out?!

Still, seeing the serious look from her cousin, she had to answer honestly. “Grandfather.”

then and asked Cordy, who was still hiding her face, “So? Do you understand the connection between me and Zoe

than when he bit her. Still, she nodded without looking up, keeping

you like to see my birth certificate as well,

her head, even as Zoe was left even more puzzled by

two?” Zoe could not

misunderstood that I

felt

looked up from his chest, her eyes pleading him to

it was more than enough for John alone to be

it on her palm along with his warmth–as if she was being

withdrew her hand from his lips, Zoe was perplexed by their

go

was clearly upset at that–was she supposed to

leaving?” John said then, his tone a little

that Zoe was scared of